☀️ Why It's Important to Slow Down

I used to think the way to achieve your goals is to go at it as intensely and as quickly as possible.

I used to believe that winners always sprint to chase after the ball.

To me, it was the person who perseveres through sweat, tears, and pain who deserves to get the ball and ultimately get the prize, medal, or trophy.

But it took me a long time to realize that our minds and legs are not built to be sprinting all the time.

It is the one who rests intentionally in between, that runs the farthest.

The greatest and biggest lesson I’ve learned in my late 20s is the paradoxical truth that you need to slow down to go faster and farther.

The idea of slowing down and being patient, “trusting the universe” did not come intuitively to me.

Only after doing a lot of work in resetting my nervous system, in nurturing the parts of myself that were ignored all those years, did I understand this important way of being in life.

Here are my two biggest reasons why it's important to slow down:

1) Burnout is way more common and more complex than you think

When you think about burnout, you probably have an image of what it looks like.

I picture someone who just returned home from work, looking tired, stressed, and disheveled.

But the reality is that burnout is way more complex than you think. In fact, there are 12 stages to burnout.

Burnout can look different for everyone because we all have different survival capabilities— some of us have a high tolerance for stress and can suppress the signals that the nervous system is firing.

But that doesn't mean they can deal with burnout better. It just means there is a higher tendency to push the signals down— until it’s too late.

One of the easiest ways to prevent burnout is to have consistent and sustainable ways of slowing down, grounding ourselves, and giving our nervous system a reset and break that it deserves.

2) It’s important to have a marathon mentality

In 2021, the global average life expectancy was just over 70 years.

This is astonishing when you realize that just two hundred years ago, the life expectancy was less than half of that.

Sometimes it’s hard to comprehend how long our lives can be.

We often hear people say that "life is short"

But when you slow your pace down and pay attention to the steps you take, the view to enjoy along the way, and the divinity in each passing moment

You will realize that it was never about competing or even winning this race

It was never a race to begin with, the systems we live in have conditioned us to believe that.

It was always about running it for as long as we can, with as much joy, fun, love, and doing our best to be in each moment fully, authentically, and with surrender.

Question to ask yourself:

• What is currently preventing you from pausing and slowing down in life?

• What are things you experienced or learned as a kid that have shaped this way of being for you?

☀️ How can I help?

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2. Schedule a free call with me to discuss whether 1-on-1 coaching could be helpful to you on your journey!

And that's it for now! ✨

Thank you for reading this edition all the way to the end. I appreciate you 🙏

Thanks for being part of this journey.

Hope to see you in the next issue!